Core card printer

The Laser Personalization System for Ultra Secure Cards

Printing:

Single-sided, Double-sided

Encoding:

Magnetic stripes, Smart contact, Smart contactless

Card lifespan:

+3 years

Number of cards per year:

More than 30,000

Card security level:

The Highest

A multifunctional system for maximum card security

Core is a system dedicated to the instant production of secure cards and is capable of performing up to four operations in just one single step:

• Single or double-sided color sublimation printing,
• Data encoding on magnetic strips, contact or contactless
• smartcards (these technologies can be combined with each other),
• Laser engraving of text, images, and security features, either single or double-sided,
• Single or double-sided lamination, with or without holograms.

Thanks to this versatility, Core provides performance and productivity that are rarely equaled.

The Core system is ideal for printing all types of highly secure badges, such as:

• National ID cards
• Driver's licenses
• Airport access control badges
• Military or police ID badges

Card security

With Core, you can integrate a range of highly secure personalization features:

• Prevention of any attempt to fake cards thanks to a laser procedure:
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  • Ghost images,
  • Microtext,
  • CLI (Changeable Laser Image),
  • Tactile effects,
  • LPI® (Laser Protected Image).
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• Premium protection thanks to the card lamination with or without holograms:
  
  
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  • Varnish,
  • Patch,
  • Personalized or generic hologram.
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• Encoding technologies on magnetic strips, contact or contactless smartcards that can be combined with each other.

These different procedures used together significantly increase the security level of the card to prevent counterfeiting attempts.

Contact or contactless chip

Personal data laser engraved

CLI (Changeable Laser Image)

Microtext laser engraved

Color sublimation printing in 300 dpi (with or without LPI®)

Lamination with or without hologram

Ghost image laser engraved

MRZ (area easy to read by the machine) laser engraved with tactile effect

Security of the printing process:

Core ensures secure card production thanks to a:

Locking system to access the laser and lamination films,

Space for Kensington® security lock.

A unique and complete range of consumables

Core supports several card types: PC, PET, PVC, ABS, etc.

The range of Evolis High Trust® printing and lamination ribbons consists of:

Color ribbons adapted to all types of personalization:

YMCKO: full color card, single or double-sided,

½ YMCKO: ½ color card,

YMCKO-K: full color card front/monochrome reverse,

UcYMCK: UnichromaTM ribbon adapted to printing with dye sublimation on polycarbonate cards.

Lamination films to protect the cards

Several patch sizes (0.6 – 1.0 mil)

Personalized holograms with overt, covert, and forensic security features.

General features

• Color printing module, laser engraving module, and laminating station
• Printing module: